Another one, Majid Khan - this is a Pakistani who lived for several years in the U.S. as recently as 2002, and he was allegedly working with Khalid Sheik Mohammed on a plot to blow up gas stations in the U.S. Abu Zubaydah we mentioned at the top, al-Qaida facilitator.
The militants also planned to blow up the gas installation, state TV said.
The Islamic extremists also planned to blow up the gas installation and rigged it with mines throughout, the U.S. official said.
The Algerians initially moved in on Thursday after concluding the militants planned to blow up the gas installation and flee to Mali with the foreigners as hostages.
Mr Sellal praised the decision by Algerian special forces to storm the site, adding that the aim of the kidnappers was to "blow up the gas plant".
The militants had "decided to succeed in the operation as planned, to blow up the gas complex and kill all the hostages, " Algerian Communications Minister Mohamed Said told state radio.
On Saturday, Algerian forces launched a raid to retake the facility after reports that the militants had killed a number of the captives and were planning to blow up the gas plant.
There are signs wind may be recovering from the blow dealt by low natural gas prices.
Egyptian forces also confiscated two truckloads of weapons in a town in Sheikh Zuweid, in North Sinai, including rocket-propelled grenades, rockets, hand grenades, machine guns, and explosives similar to the ones used to blow up a pipeline exporting gas to Israel numerous times, the security source said.
But the indictment makes no mention of a plot to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb" or blow up apartment buildings with natural gas -- allegations made previously in public statements and court arguments by Justice Department officials.
In a humiliating blow to the once proud, gas-guzzling Hummer SUV, engineers at GM have re-imagined the poster child for environmental apathy as a completely green vehicle that not only leaves a small "footprint" in its wake, but actually promises to give something back to nature as well.
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Control-room operators, in a mock-up of a real off-shore control room, can be trained to deal with a range of tricky situations including explosions, leaks of poisonous gas and oil-well blow-outs, without the risk of so much as a scratch.
AstraZeneca has doped its version of a COX-2 inhibitor with nitrous oxide--laughing gas--to soften the gastrointestinal blow.
The pressure in the capped-off well could blow a new hole in it, letting oil and gas leak out through the seabed.
Sheep dip a cousin of nerve gas that is used to rid fleece of blow flies and lice got to him a few years back.
Longer term, were we served by more renewable power generators (wind, solar) we would be better protected against unpredictable price spikes in oil and gas markets that may come when political winds blow in an unexpected direction.
Coal was hit with a potentially bigger environmental blow in March when the EPA issued guidelines that could limit greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants as early as 2013.
We are not placed in a straitjacket and force fed oil, no one comes around at night and illicitly sprinkles coal on the backyard and no one at all pipes gas into our cookers so that we must burn it or blow the house up.
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So as and when British Gas does announce the new higher prices, it will be a blow to millions of households struggling to pay bills and will have a significant influence on prospects for the British economy.
More specifically, they think they should get more cash for gas pumped from beneath their ancestral land, and they are wont to blow up pipelines when more cash is not forthcoming.
Analysts say the move will be a big blow to the Iranian energy industry - it means Iran is now unlikely to significantly increase its gas exports until late into the next decade.
India, Pakistan and Iran will sign a deal this month to build a natural gas pipeline to help feed the subcontinent's desperate need for energy, a major blow to American sanctions against Tehran and a defeat for U.S. influence in South Asia.
The automaker suffered a blow to its reputation from a series of massive recalls in 2009 and 2010, including faulty braking, sticky gas pedals and defective floor mats, partly a reflection of how various models used the same parts to save costs.
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